• Kbin_space_program
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    I would like to point out that the image of the cowboy and wild west being the hot and dry southern states isn’t that accurate.

    The wild west was also Oregon country, now Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska.

    In the latter four, even now, if you go too far into the wild unprepared they won’t find you.

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        It’s just called wilderness, looks beautiful, arguably more deadly.

        Parks in AZ on the border of Phoenix(for example) don’t have notices that cars left in the lot will have immediate search and rescue operations started to find them at dusk. Parks on the northern edge of Vancouver do.

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        You can have that weather in northern Arizona though.

        The closest thing we’ve had in a game to the temperate rainforests of the pacific northwest that a lot of the cowboys of the region had to fave would be the thick tropical jungles of Crysis and Far Cry.

  • guyrocket
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    674 months ago

    I’ve found cowboy boots to be very slippery on snow or ice. This person’s credibility is sinking fast…

  • @OpenStars@startrek.website
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    224 months ago

    Cowboys are… prepared to exist outside - whatever could they have been thinking!? :-P

    Seriously, each of those elements was intelligently designed for the purpose that cowboys had for them. I use many of those same elements myself, while people prepared only to sprint from car to indoors have a whole other thing going on.

  • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    154 months ago

    And I’m sure I would have laughed at that cowboy had I seen him while I was wearing actual winter clothes. People’s brain just freeze come winter time and they become too dumb to dress properly.

  • RemembertheApollo
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    134 months ago

    Like a greentext…just made up BS. Really, the “cowboy” was the only one dressed appropriately for weather?

    • @Mac
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      And according to this person being dressed up for the cold is wearing clothes that are designed to be worn in warm weather. Dumb.

        • @Umbrias@beehaw.org
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          34 months ago

          What makes it dumb is that the clothing described wouldn’t have been what kept them warm and unfazed, that would be the layers underneath the made up cowboy’s attire.

          What makes it silly is that cowboys exist across the very snowy north and have since cowboys have existed anywhere.

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          A cowboy hat, banana, a duster, and boots is how i understood the description which is warm weather garb.

          You’re just too city to understand that.

          • @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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            Bro never heard about long johns and thinks dusters are exclusively warm weather gear 💀

            (Also the description specifically mentions a poncho, not a duster, but ponchos are also useful for cold weather)

            • @Mac
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              14 months ago

              Ah yes, the classic winter garb: a duster poncho and a cowboy hat. Lmao

      • @crushyerbones@lemmy.world
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        44 months ago

        Not American but doesn’t central America get cold as fuck at night? I would assume that’s what cowboys dressed for since you can always remove clothes but you can’t exactly create them from thin air at night.

        • @Katrisia@lemm.ee
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          14 months ago

          I’m not an expert, but I believe it’s more of a North American thing (Canada, U.S.A., Mexico) due to the mountain systems along the three countries. The Rocky Mountains, the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Velt, etc. are all part of the North American Cordillera. This, and the occasional deserts.

          I’d guess ponchos, jorongos, and similar pieces of clothing were adopted by non-native settlers (Spanish, English, etc.), including non-native cowboys, because they are good against the changing weather during the day and the cold nights, as you said.

          I mean, Central America must have cold spots along their own mountains and South America has the Andean Mountain Range (enormous system), but I do not know about their traditional clothing, except they share the poncho, and I do not know which of their clothing we still wear to this day.

  • Rozaŭtuno
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    134 months ago

    The reverse of this is camels: they fitst evolved their adaptions to survive the cold, not the desert.

    • @BluesF@lemmy.world
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      254 months ago

      That isn’t the reverse, it’s the same deal - adaptations to one place turn out to be beneficial in another. Also, the desert IS cold at night, no?

      • @dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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        84 months ago

        Arctic deserts are also a thing (e.g. Iceland). The similarities tell the whole story:

        • Poor access to liquid water
        • Need to insulate body from temperature extremes, wind
        • Food sources are sporadically available at best
        • Need to minimize contact with ground or insulate feet

        This is not to suggest that polar bears are similarly adapted to the Sahara. Rather, it’s not a huge shift, but it’s still a change.

        • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          34 months ago

          in a similar vein rainforests do not have to be tropical, there are several temperate rainforests in europe of which the southwestern norwegian coast is apparently one